Southerners Used All of the Following to Justify Slavery EXCEPT

question 40

Multiple Choice

Southerners used all of the following to justify slavery EXCEPT:

• A) claims of black racial inferiority
• B) biblical support of slavery
• C) fear of a race war if slavery were abolished
• D) Thomas Jefferson's words in the Declaration of Independence
• E) the superior life Africans enjoyed in the southern states

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